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Original Trailer
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Added: 14th April 2008
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Posted by: Naomi on 2008-04-14
Would a film by Mel Brooks ever be anything but great?? Here's some trivia for Blazing Saddles..enjoy!
- Production began with Gig Young as the Waco Kid. On the first day of shooting, the scene where the drunk Waco Kid hangs from a bunk asking if Bart is black, Young revealed that he really was indeed drunk (he had had an alcohol problem for years) and proceeded to undergo a physical collapse on set. Brooks shut down production for a day and Gene Wilder flew cross country to take over the role. Mel Brooks also asked Johnny Carson to play the Waco Kid, but he refused.
- Director Mel Brooks plays a character called 'Le Petomane', which was the stage name of a popular French performer (Joseph Pujol) from the beginning of the 20th century, who told stories punctuated with flatulence, and demonstrated his ability to blow out candle flames from two feet way with his back turned.
- One day in the Warner Bros. commissary, Brooks and the other writers were seated at a table opposite John Wayne. The Duke turned and said he had heard about their Western, the one where people say stuff like 'blow it out your ass'. Mel handed The Duke a copy of the script and said, 'Yes, and we'd like you to be in it'. According to Brooks, the Duke turned down the offer the next day by saying, 'Naw, I can't do a movie like that, but I'll be first in line to see it!'
- Gilda Radner appears in a scene in the church. She would later become Gene Wilder's wife.
- Actress Hedy Lamarr sued Brooks over the use of the name Hedley Lamarr and settled out of court.
- When he advertised in the show business trade papers for a 'Frankie Laine-type' voice to sing the film's title song, Brooks was hoping for a good imitator. Instead, Frankie Laine himself showed at Brooks' office two days later, ready to do the job but nobody told him the movie was a parody.
- The world premiere was screened at the Pickwick Drive-In, in Burbank, California. The guests rode horses into the drive-in for the show.
- According to Mel Brooks', Warner Bros released the film again in the summer of 1975 because they didn't have any other big pictures to release.
- When Gene Wilder came on the cast for this movie, he requested that Brooks do his movie idea next. Gene Wilder's idea was Young Frankenstein.
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